Infectious Typhoid

Question 1

Fever
Abdominal pain
Enlarged peyer’s and mesenteric LN

Answer 1

Typhoid Enteric fever

Question 2

Typhoid organism

Answer 2

S typhi

S paratyphi

Question 3

Human host
Food/water borne
Fecal contamination by ill or asymptomatic chronic carrier
Sexual
Health care exposure

Answer 3

Typhoid

Question 4

Clone H58 is resistant to

Answer 4

Quinolone

Question 5

Not a known risk factor for enteric fever

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Recent travel to SEA

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Typhoid rf:

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Contaminated food
Flooding
Sewage fertilized crop
Ill household contact
Prior H pylori infection (chronic reduced gastric content)

Question 7

Most prominent typhoid symptom

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Fever >75%

Abd pain 30-40-%

Question 8

Milder form presenting with GI symptom

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Paratyphi S

Question 9

Rash of enteric fever

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rose spot on trunk or chest

Question 10

Early physical finding 30%
Faint salmon colored blanching maculopapular rash on trunk and chest
Salmonella can be cultured from punch biopsy

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Rose spots

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Life threatening GI complication such as bleeding and intestinal perforation occur during

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3rd to 4th week

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Neurologic manifestation 2-40%

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Meningitis
GBS
Neuritis
Neuropsychiatric symptoms (muttering delirium or coma vigil)

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Individuals are likely to become chronic carriers of S typhi

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Female
Infant
Persons with biliary abnormality
Concurrent bladder infection / S. haematobium

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S typhi pxs may excrete it in feces for up to

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3 mos

Question 15

Definitive dx of Typhoid

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Isolation of S typhi from blood, bone marrow, sterile site, rose spot, stool

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Gives more than 80% yield not reduced up to 5 d of prior antibiotic therapy

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Bone marrow

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Culture of intestinal secretion could br kbtajned by

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duodenal string test

Question 18

serologic test for febrile agglutinnin

Simple rapid limited sensitivity and specificity

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Widal test

Question 19

Typhoid tx

Answer 19

Fluoroquinolone cure rate of 98%

Relapse and fecal carriage rage <2%

Question 20

Dsc strain

Answer 20

Ciprofloxacin

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Typhoid vaccine

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TY21a oral live attenuated

6 years

Question 22

Enteric fever

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Salmonella typhi
Salmonella para typhi

If not 2, non-enteric

Question 23

Blood

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1st week

Question 24

Urine culture

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2nd week

Question 25

Stool culture

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3rd week of illness

Question 26

Brunner’s gland

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Duodenum

Question 27

Peyer’s

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Ileum

Question 28

Picking at bed clothes

Imaginary objects

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coma vigil

Question 29

Low utterences
Slurring of speech
Restlesness

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Muttering delirium

Question 30

Reservoir of salmonella

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Gallbladder

Question 31

Most prominent symptom

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Fever

Question 32

Roth spot

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Infective endocarditis

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Board like abdomen

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Perforated typhoid ileitis

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Most common site of perforation in bowel

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Cecum

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Cecum rupture is likely bec of

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Law of laplace

The higher the diameter, the higher pressure

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Single most sensitive method of diagnosis of Typhoid fever

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Blood or bone marrow c

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Empiric tx for typhoid

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Ceftriaxone

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Cephalosporins for empiric tx of enteric fever

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Cefotaxime 2gm q8 IV
Cefixime 400mg BID PO
Ceftriaxone 2gm/day IV

Question 39

Optimal tx for fully susceptible enteric fever in adult

Answer 39

Ciprofloxacin